• 대한기계학회논문집B
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• 제24권4호
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• pp.599-607
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• 2000

In this study, experiments have been performed to examine the effects of background gray-level on the depth-of-field and on the in-focus criteria. The normalized value of contrast(VC) and the gradient indicator(GI) were used as the in-focus criteria for the small and the large size-ranges of particles, respectively. The slightly larger number of pixels were detected with the brighter background. The maximum of the normalized value of contrast(VCmax) is decreased with the brighter background and its deviation from that with the background gray-level of 160 turned out to be about $pm$15% when the background gray-level changes from 100 to 200. However, the maximum gradient indicator(GImax) changes with the background gray-level within only $pm$5%. The depth-of-field for the VC-applicable particle-size range is largely dependent on the background gray-level. On the other hand, the depth-of-field for the GI-applicable particle-size range changes only slightly with the background gray-level. To keep the normalized standard deviation of the particle size within 0.1, the background gray-level should be set 160$pm$20 for both the VC-applicable and GI-applicable ranges which cover the particle size between $10{\mu}m$ and $300{\mu}m$.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제16권5호통권98호
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• pp.48-57
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• 1999

Applications of thresholding technique are based on the assumption that object and background pixels in a digital image can be distinguished by their gray level values. For the segmentation of more complex images, it is necessary to resort to multiple threshold selection techniques. This paper describes a new method for multiple threshold selection of gray level images which are not clearly distinguishable from the background. The proposed method consists of three main stages. In the first stage, a probability distribution function for a gray level histogram of an image is derived. Cluster points are defined according to the probability distribution function. In the second stage, fuzzy partition matrix of the probability distribution function is generated through the fuzzy clustering process. Finally, elements of the fuzzy partition matrix are classified as clusters according to gray level values by using max-membership method. Boundary values of classified clusters are selected as multiple threshold. In order to verify the performance of the developed algorithm, automatic inspection process of ball grid array is presented.

• 한국정밀공학회:학술대회논문집
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• 한국정밀공학회 1993년도 추계학술대회 논문집
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• pp.395-401
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• 1993

The purpose of this paper is to develop an automatic measuring system based on the digital image processing which can be applied to the in-process measurement of the characteristics of the thin thickness. The derivative operators is used for edge detection in gray level image. This concept can be easiliy illustrated with the aid of object shows an image of a simple light object on a dark background, the gray level profile along a horizontal scan line of the image, and the first and second derivatives of the profile. The first derivative of an edge modeled in this manner is () in all regions of constant gray level, and assumes a constant value during a gray level transition. The experimental results indicate that the developed qutomatic inspection system can be applied in real situation.

• 한국정밀공학회지
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• 제12권6호
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• pp.72-79
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• 1995

The purpose of this paper is to develop an automatic measuring system based on the digital image processing which can be applied to the in-process measurment of the characteristics of the thin thickness. The derivative operators is used for edge detection in gray level image. This concept can be easily illustrated with the aid of object shows an image of a simple light object on a dark background, the gray level profile along a horizontal scan line of the image, and the first and second derivatives of the profile. The first derivative of an edge modeled in this manner is 0 in all regions of constant gray level, and assumes a constant value during a gray level transition. The experimental results indicate that the developed automatic inspection system can be applied in real situation.

• 한국정보과학회논문지:소프트웨어및응용
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• 제31권4호
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• pp.420-438
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• 2004

이미지에 인위적 또는 자연적으로 포함된 텍스트는 이미지의 내용을 함축적이고 구체적으로 표현하는 중요한 정의이다. 이러한 정보를 실시간에 추출하여 정확히 인식할 수 있다면 다양한 분야에서 활용될 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 자연이미지에 포함된 장면 텍스트를 추출하는 방법으로서 텍스트의 색 연속성, 자기 변화 및 색 변화와 같은 낮은 수준의 이미지 특징으로 텍스트 후보 영역을 찾고, 다해상도 (Multi-resolution) 웨이블릿(Wavelet) 변환을 이용하여 높은 수준의 텍스트 특징인 획의 구성 여부로 검증하는 계층적인 구조를 제안한다. 색 연속성 특징은 대부분의 텍스트는 동일한 색으로 구성된다는 특징을 이용하는 것이고, 밝기 변화 특징은 텍스트 영역은 주변과의 밝기 변화가 존재하며 에지 밀도가 높은 특징을 이용한다. 또한, 색 변화 특징은 텍스트 영역은 주변 배경과의 색 변화가 존재하며, 밝기 변화보다 민감한 색 분산 값으로 표현할 수 있다는 장점을 이용한다. 높은 수준의 텍스트 특징으로서 다해상도 웨이블릿 변환을 이용하여 텍스트 획의 방향성 정보를 추출하고, 추출된 정보를 SVM(Support Vector Machine) 분류기로 검증하여 최종 영역을 확정한다. 제안한 방법을 다양한 종류의 이미지에 적용한 결과 배경이 복잡해도 비교적 안정적으로 텍스트 영역을 추출하는 것을 확인할 수 있었다.

• 산업경영시스템학회지
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• 제43권1호
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• pp.16-25
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• 2020

Vegetation segmentation in a field color image is a process of distinguishing vegetation objects of interests like crops and weeds from a background of soil and/or other residues. The performance of the process is crucial in automatic precision agriculture which includes weed control and crop status monitoring. To facilitate the segmentation, color indices have predominantly been used to transform the color image into its gray-scale image. A thresholding technique like the Otsu method is then applied to distinguish vegetation parts from the background. An obvious demerit of the thresholding based segmentation will be that classification of each pixel into vegetation or background is carried out solely by using the color feature of the pixel itself without taking into account color features of its neighboring pixels. This paper presents a new pixel-based segmentation method which employs a multi-layer perceptron neural network to classify the gray-scale image into vegetation and nonvegetation pixels. The input data of the neural network for each pixel are 2-dimensional gray-level values surrounding the pixel. To generate a gray-scale image from a raw RGB color image, a well-known color index called Excess Green minus Excess Red Index was used. Experimental results using 80 field images of 4 vegetation species demonstrate the superiority of the neural network to existing threshold-based segmentation methods in terms of accuracy, precision, recall, and harmonic mean.

• 한국멀티미디어학회논문지
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• 제17권4호
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• pp.420-432
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• 2014

In detection of moving objects from video sequences, an essential process for intelligent visual surveillance, the cast shadows accompanying moving objects are different from background so that they may be easily extracted as foreground object blobs, which causes errors in localization, segmentation, tracking and classification of objects. Most of the previous research results about moving cast shadow detection and removal usually utilize color information about objects and scenes. In this paper, we proposes a novel cast shadow removal method of moving objects in gray level video data for visual surveillance application. The proposed method utilizes observations about edge patterns in the shadow region in the current frame and the corresponding region in the background scene, and applies Laplacian edge detector to the blob regions in the current frame and the corresponding regions in the background scene. Then, the product of the outcomes of application determines moving object blob pixels from the blob pixels in the foreground mask. The minimal rectangle regions containing all blob pixles classified as moving object pixels are extracted. The proposed method is simple but turns out practically very effective for Adative Gaussian Mixture Model-based object detection of intelligent visual surveillance applications, which is verified through experiments.

• 정보처리학회논문지B
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• 제12B권5호
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• pp.543-552
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• 2005

본 논문은 조영 영상에서 유동적인 배경의 텍스쳐 분석을 통한 DSA(Digital subtraction Angiography: 디지털 혈관조영술)기반의 관상동맥 검출방법에 대해 기술한다. DSA 방법은 조영제를 투입하기 전에 촬영된 마스크 영상과 조영제 투입 후의 혈관 대비가 나타나는 라이브 영상과의 차이를 이용하여 빠르게 혈관 영역만을 검출하는 방법이다. 이 방법의 큰 단점은 배경의 움직임에 민감하고, 두 영상간의 지역적인 배경 명암 분포의 변화에 따라 오검출이 발생할 수 있다. 따라서 본 논문에서는 배경 텍스쳐의 유사도를 분석하여 움직임의 차이가 가장 작은 영상을 선택함으로써 배경의 움직임으로 인한 구조적인 문제를 해결하고, 선택된 영상의 지역적 명암 보정을 통해 혈관 영역만을 효과적으로 추출할 수 있는 방법을 제안한다. 실험 결과에서는 성능 평가를 위하여 다섯 환자의 임상 관상동맥 조영 영상을 사용 하였다. 제안하는 방법은 기존의 방법보다 배경을 혈관으로 인식하는 오 인식률에서 약 $2\%$정도의 안정적인 결과를 보여주며, 정확도는 증가하였음을 알 수 있다.

• 대한한의학회지
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• 제28권4호
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• pp.104-113
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• 2007

Background : Amygdalin is abundant in Armeniacae semen, and it is recently reported to treat cancers and relieve pain. But modus operandi of amygdalin at the level of neuron has not been reported, yet. Objective : This study aimed to find out the effect of amygdalin on glycine- and glutamate-induced ion currents in periaqueductal gray (PAG) neurons. And it was investigated that amygdalin participates in the regulation of the descending pain control system in the level of PAG neurons. Method : We investigated that the changes of glycine- and glutamate-induced ion currents in PAG neurons through application of lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and application of amygdalin with LPS by using the nystatin-perforated patch clamp method. Result : Application of LPS on PAG neurons resulted in increased glycine-induced ion current, and in decreased glutamate-induced ion current. In contrast, application of amygdalin with LPS resulted in decreased glycine-induced ion current increased by LPS, and increased glutamate-induced ion current decreased by LPS. Conclusion : Amygdalin from Armeniacae semen controls glycine- and glutamate-induced ion current by LPS in PAG neurons, and it is suggested that amygdalin participates in the regulation of the descending pain control system in the level of PAG neurons.

• 한국정보통신학회논문지
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• 제14권5호
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• pp.1240-1250
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• 2010

본 논문에서는 명암 가중치를 적용한 반복 공간 모멘트를 이용하여 복잡한 배경에서 사용자의 눈을 정확히 추출하고 추적할 수 있는 눈 추적 시스템을 제안한다. CCD 카메라를 활용하여 촬영한 입력영상으로부터 눈 영역을 찾기 전에 관심영역을 최소화하기 위하여 Haar-like feature를 이용하여 얼굴영역을 검출한다. 그리고 주성분 분석의 고유 얼굴 기반인 고유 눈을 이용하여 눈 영역을 검출 한다. 또한 눈 영역에서 가장 어두운 부분으로부터 눈의 좌 우 상 하 끝점인 특징 점을 찾고, 명암 가중치를 적용한 반복 수렴 공간 모멘트를 이용하여 정확한 눈동자의 시선추적을 확인하였다.